Loom-temple



(No Model.)

T. SULLIVAN. LooM TEMPLE.

No. 416,692. Patented-Dc. 3,.'1889.

Witljegge:

UNITED g STATES PATENT OFFICE.`

TIMOTHY SULLIVAN, OF FALL RIVER, ASSIGNOR TO TI-IE DUTCI-IER TEMPLE COMPANY, VOF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS.

LOOM-TEM PLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,692, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed July 9,1888. Serial Ns. 279 ,436. (No model.)

To aZZ whom may concern.-

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY SULLIVAN, of Fall River, county of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Loom-Temples, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specication, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

It is of especial advantage in looms to have lthe temple-stand and its holding devices take up the least possible space on the breast-beam in the direction of the width of the loom, for the less the space taken up by the stand the wider may be the reed and the cloth which .may be woven thereon without n touching any part of the stand.

Prior to my invention it has been customary to provide the temple-stand with a web or flange located at one side the shank of the temple, the said web being slotted for the receptionof two screws, by which to attach the stand to the stand-plate, it in turn being slotted to be attached to the breast-beam.

In accordance with my invention the slotted web or flange at the side of the stand has been dispensed with, and the stand-plate cooperating With it has been provided at and near its outer end with a raised shelf recessed to form two lips or ribs, between which is left a groove for the reception of the narrow foot of the temple-stand. The screws to attach the foot' of the stand to the stand-plate are extended fupwardly through the shelf from below and enter threaded holes in the foot of the stand below the shank of the ternple, as will be described.

.By dispensing with the web or flange on the stand the selvage of the cloth may travel close to the temple-stand, and. yet in the 1novement of the cloth not travel horizontally above or rub against any part of the said stand.

The invention consists,essentially, in the combination, with a temple.- stand having a narrow foot, of a stand-plate recessed for the reception of the said foot, and bolts or screws extended through the said plate directly into the foot of the stand below the temple-shank, as will be described.

Figure l in top or plan View shows aloo1ntemple embodying my invention and its standtemple-stand c has at its inner side a rib or 6o flange c', (see Fig. 3,) slotted, as at c2, to receive holding-screws 2, by which to coniine the stand to the stand-plate d, it in turn being slotted, as -at d2, to receive a fasteningbolt 3, which enters acorresponding slot in the breast-beam A, the bolt having applied to it a nut 16. t

Wishing to narrow the temple-'stand as much as possible, so as to leave a space as wide as possible for the cloth at the top of 7o.

the breast-beam, so that the selvage of the cloth will not in its movements travel over any. portion of the stand, I have dispensed with the usual web or fiange c', extending laterally from the temple-stand and over the 'top of the breast-beam, and have made the foot of the stand as a narrow bar f, connecting the two bearings f. f2 for the shank b', thesaid foot entering the recess formed be-` tween the ribs or lips 5 6 on the elevated 8O shelf or stand-plate d, slotted at d2 and secured by a screw or bolt 3 to the breast-beam A.

In Fig. 1 the dotted line y y is supposed to represent the selvage of the cloth being woven,

`and it will be noticed that it may rest on the breast-beam from its inner to its outer side, and in passing over the same not touch any part of the temple-stand, whereas by referring to Fig. 3 it will be seen that were a like line y y put thereon from the same part of 9G` g the trough it would cross the web c.

In practice with the old form of stand in Fig. 3 the selvage cannot come closer to the temple than the line y 'y'.

The breast-beam herein shown is supposed to be of metal flanged at its upper side toV leave a space for the reception of the plate d.

I claim' The temple-stand having a narrow foot f,

combined with the stand-plate, recessed, as IQO described, for the reception of the said foot, In estimony Whereoflhave signed myname and with screws extended Within said recess to this speccation in the presence of two sub- 1o through the said stand-plate into and to rigscribing witnesses.

idly connect the said foot and stand-plate 5/ vertically below the bar b of the temple, and TIMOTHY SULLIVAN' whereby the breast-beam outside the bearings Vitncsses: for `che bar b is left unobstructed for the pas- F. J. DUTCHER,

sage of the cloth, substantially as described. C. A. GARLAND. 

